I got the htdig search engine back on-line last night. Search is working once again.

I'm still working on:

* Mail server setup.

* Submission page Perl libraries. (Some of the libraries I was using have been updated out of existence.)

* Apache tuning. (You may notice brief outages as I start and stop the web server.)

A few other odds and ends.

Thank you, Jeff.

quote:Originally posted by Evil Furby Laugh:

Thank you, Jeff.

Jeff, if I were a woman, I'd preform oral and sexual favors for you.

Thanks Jeffy

Hey Jeff, you know what'll be cool? @totse.com email addresses. But anyway, thanks.

We need a ToTSE buddy icon.

quote:Originally posted by Jeff Hunter:

I got the htdig search engine back on-line last night. Search is working once again.

I'm still working on:

* Mail server setup.

* Submission page Perl libraries. (Some of the libraries I was using have been updated out of existence.)

* Apache tuning. (You may notice brief outages as I start and stop the web server.)

A few other odds and ends.

First to quote

quote:Originally posted by anarcho-commie:

Hey Jeff, you know what'll be cool? @totse.com email addresses. But anyway, thanks.

It has been suggested before. I doubt it will ever happen. It would be pretty cool though.

Any word on merchandise?

Will the procedes go to the updating of the UBB?

quote:Originally posted by anarcho-commie:

Hey Jeff, you know what'll be cool? @totse.com email addresses. But anyway, thanks.

Do you have ANY idea how much work it is to maintain a mail server these days? There are mail quotas to configure, anti-virus and anti-SPAM measures to configure and maintain, there's web-mail setup and maintenance, and everything has to be tweakable via a web interface to keep people happy. Plus you have to be on-guard against people using your server to send SPAM, and there are always new ways to send SPAM.

The only way I would even consider it is if it was a paid service. Would you pay $20 a year for all of that? If there were 100 people willing to pay $20 a year, I'd set it up. There is no way I'd do that much work for free.

quote:Originally posted by LordDaemon:

Any word on merchandise?



What merchandise? You mean like this?

http://www.cafepress.com/totse/

quote:Originally posted by LordDaemon:

Will the procedes go to the updating of the UBB?

Almost didn't answer the second half of your question...

Upgrading the BBS is easy and cheap. I could do that tomorrow. You'd see an instant slow-down to the point where the system would be unusable, because the hardware required to run a BBS with 40000+ unique visitors per day isn't so cheap.

Right now totse.com is running on a single server. It's a kick-ass server, but it's ONE server. It barely supports the traffic that we have now. If I was going to upgrade to a database-based BBS system the processing power needed for the traffic this place gets would look something like this:

* Firewall.

* Load-balancer (distributes the load between web servers.

* Two web servers (for starters).

* Database server (to store BBS messages).

* Mail server.

That's 5 more servers than we have now. These are ~$1500 servers we're talking about, and the database server we'd need costs close to $8K, so with tax that's about $16000. I would love to do this, but it would require something along the lines of membership fees to make this happen -- advertising and merchandise (mostly) pays for the bandwidth and cabinet space, but not new hardware.

Every time I've brought this up in the past one or two people say they'd pay, but most people have slammed me for daring to suggest that they should ever pay anything for using this site, so it remains as it is. When people's attitiudes change, I'll set up a way to pay and buy the hardware. Until then, you get what we've got.

quote:Originally posted by Paradise Lost:

We need a ToTSE buddy icon.

One that we could edit and write our usernames on.

quote:Originally posted by Jeff Hunter:

What merchandise? You mean like this?

http://www.cafepress.com/totse/

No, Winturemute was trying to do those rubber bracelts, and then locked the thread for one odd reason or another, so I assumed that it was still in the air.

EDIT: First off, I would buy merchandise, can I send you money via mail? I don't mind the UBB we have now, it's just there's some imperfections. Also, what about signatures? Why are they still off?



[This message has been edited by LordDaemon (edited 09-25-2005).]

I had a dream I was on totse and they layout was like a new style. You know you are on totse too much when You see it in your dreams.

But those rubber braclets like the "livestrong" ones would be awesome. You would sell tons

quote:Originally posted by h0ppinlowrider:

I had a dream I was on totse and they layout was like a new style. You know you are on totse too much when You see it in your dreams.

But those rubber braclets like the "livestrong" ones would be awesome. You would sell tons

Weird...I had a dream like that and it was like, pick. So i e-mailed Jeff Hunter and was like "Teh Lay0ut sucks pen0r"

What about tweaking the software to allow a few stickies?

All we really need is the ability to make ONE sticky per forum. If there is more than one thread that needs stickying they can just make an index, sticky that and let the other ones float.

So can you PLEEEEEASE make stickys availible?

Whats a sticky?

quote:Originally posted by h0ppinlowrider:

[BYou know you are on totse too much when You see it in your dreams.[/B]

I am too much on totse.

quote:Originally posted by Evil Furby Laugh:

Whats a sticky?

Where a certain topic, normally by mods or members of high stature, stays at the top no matter what.

OMGWTFBBQ

Edit: Let me take this time to say, OMG ZERG RUSH KEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKE

[This message has been edited by Shrapnel (edited 09-26-2005).]

why is it that jeff only seems to come on when TOTSE is fucked? Why doesn't he sit and chat with us?

quote:Originally posted by LordDaemon:

Where a certain topic, normally by mods or members of high stature, stays at the top no matter what.

Hey that is pretty nifty!

Please do, Jeff.

Jeff? Did you leave us again?

Please come back [and make an option for stickys ]

Jeff, whats the deal with the paypal situation?

I can't donate $16,000. But I have a couple hundred if you get paypal up and running for Totse.

quote:Originally posted by Jeff Hunter:

.. There is no way I'd do that much work for free.

Oh come on Jeff-- yea you can!!

Only joking!!

$20 per year.. shoot, I'd give my first born to help totse :)

quote:Originally posted by infin:

IN B4 LOCK

thread has been open about 15 days... don't think it's gonna get locked buddy

Jeff I do think the rubber braclet idea is good... you probably would sell tons, I'd buy a few.

Resurrected!

-Angus